The trial in a second case of rape registered towards former Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna commenced in a particular court docket in Bengaluru on Wednesday with the sufferer, a former zilla panchayat member in his Parliament constituency, making a partial assertion concerning the alleged sexual assault.
The “sufferer is current earlier than the court docket and the proof of the sufferer is recorded partly by means of in-camera proceedings as PW-1 and in the course of the course of her chief examination she has requested for brief lodging because of ill-health,” the particular court docket famous whereas posting the additional chief examination of the sufferer to June 2.
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On Could 12, the particular court docket for circumstances towards elected consultant scheduled Could 28 because the date for the beginning of the trial within the second of 4 circumstances of rape and sexual harassment of ladies registered in 2024 towards the previous JDS MP from Hassan.
Within the second case, Prajwal Revanna is accused of sexually assaulting a former Hassan zilla panchayat member who approached him for official favors. The fees of rape have been framed within the case on April 22. He pleaded not responsible and sought a trial.
The particular court docket issued summonses on Could 12 to the primary batch of witnesses, together with the survivor of the alleged sexual assault, to facilitate the beginning of the trial on Could 28.
In September 2024, a Particular Investigation Staff of the Karnataka police filed a chargesheet towards Prajwal Revanna for the repeated rape of the zilla panchayat member over a three-year interval.
Prajwal Revanna, 33, has been charged for repeated rape of a girl beneath Indian Penal Code part 376(2) (n), for felony intimidation beneath part 506, for sexual harassment by demanding sexual favors beneath part 354(A) (1) (ii), for assault of a girl beneath 354(B), for voyeurism beneath 354 (C), and for destruction of proof beneath 201, and for video recording and sharing the incidents beneath part 66 (E) of the Info Expertise Act.
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The previous zilla panchayat member has additionally accused Prajwal Revanna of recording movies of the sexual assaults, which have been allegedly used to threaten and blackmail her into cooperating together with his calls for.
When the trial commenced on Wednesday, the sufferer supplied a quick assertion about her ordeal and didn’t deviate from her earlier statements, the prosecution indicated.
Cross-examination in first case
The trial within the first case of rape, the place the previous MP is accused of sexually assaulting a home employee employed at his farm home, received underway on Could 2 and the sufferer in that case and members of her household have been cross-examined on Wednesday concerning their chief statements made earlier within the trial.
“PW-1 to PW-4 are current and they’re absolutely cross-examined by the realized counsel for the accused,” the particular court docket famous concerning the proceedings within the first case.
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The previous MP can also be accused in a case of sexual assault on a cook dinner who labored for the Revanna household and the alleged sexual harassment of the cook dinner’s daughter.
The rape fees towards Prajwal Revanna emerged on the finish of April 2024 following the leak of express movies and pictures by means of pen drives distributed in Hassan forward of the April 26, 2024, Lok Sabha polls. He was arrested on Could 31, 2024, on his return from Germany.
An SIT was constituted to probe the sexual assault movies that have been allegedly accessed from Prajwal Revanna’s telephone by a automobile driver and leaked to his political rivals. The previous MP has been in jail for nearly a yr.
Prajwal Revanna misplaced the Hassan seat within the polls held on April 26, 2024, towards the backdrop of the mass launch of the pen drives with movies of alleged sexual assaults involving him. He was fielded because the joint candidate of the JDS and the BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.